Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8eea47bc32a20bb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.7 KB Created: 2020-08-20 13:54:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 61b5a3020a87b3daa7e53b27a5cfbdc7 SHA-1: cf57109068b9a1b08a4f7e23bfd64b3d4b9dfb11 SHA-256: 8eea47bc32a20bb4fbfecbac1a57a81f93a3443d3b93a5ab3224c24e606e5e55
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=symantec+dlp+15.+0+mp1+upgrade+guide'. This URL is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, with the primary one leading to a Shopify domain. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting it's a technical guide, which is a common lure for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=symantec+dlp+15.+0+mp1+upgrade+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.mindfuldemocracy.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776257/rasot-datugibisakose-kebezijojeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motelo.anavantage.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874565/4645fa6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8548/7525/files/podezupomuvabuganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7516/6620/files/78244827018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/78600799615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8489/7692/files/28663656464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5331/8306/files/36956641003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6997/2392/files/kurejutizavofubozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3453/3275/files/agricultural_engineering_textbooks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3070/0455/files/12331331324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1715/9335/files/daxuxabotuwukefemogodagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000473d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x473D 5768 bytes
SHA-256: e1cfc67700933bc2b5d941f939c90bb61c01b6b8589ab79655e4064ae51e5a4f
font_01_sfnt_off00005ad5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AD5 12448 bytes
SHA-256: 967e48a22779ab5152f8e83cf8783d9f123b7471dbed6d902253c9e7be7f6e83

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